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Bell's inequality: Physics meets Probability

Quantum Physics 2010-08-03 v2

Abstract

We remind the viewpoint that violation of Bell's inequality might be interpreted not only as an evidence of the alternative -- either nonlocality or ``death of reality'' (under the assumption the quantum mechanics is incomplete). Violation of Bell's type inequalities is a well known sufficient condition of incompatibility of random variables -- impossibility to realize them on a single probability space. Thus, in fact, we should take into account an additional interpretation of violation of Bell's inequality -- a few pairs of random variables (two dimensional vector variables) involved in the EPR-Bohm experiment are incompatible. They could not be realized on a single Kolmogorov probability space. Thus one can choose between: a) completeness of quantum mechanics; b) nonlocality; c) `` death of reality''; d) non-Kolmogorovness. In any event, violation of Bell's inequality has a variety of possible interpretations. Hence, it could not be used to derive the unique conclusion on the relation between quantum and classical models.

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@article{arxiv.0709.3909,
  title  = {Bell's inequality: Physics meets Probability},
  author = {Andrei Khrennikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.3909},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

Legget's inequality and experiment of S. Gr\"oblacher, T. Paterik, R. Kaltenbaek, C. Brukner, M. Zukowski, A. Aspelmeyer, and A. Zeilinger, see section 14

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